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Emergency responses greatly increase risk to firefighters of dying on duty from heart disease

In a new, large-scale study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health examined the link between CHD deaths and firefighting and looked at specific job duties to see which might increase the risk of dying from a coronary event. The landmark study provides the strongest link to date between CHD and emergency firefighting duties. It found that putting out fires was associated with a risk about 10 to 100 times greater than the risk of dying from nonemergency duties.

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